Talks

October 31, 2023. Keynote Speaker, Digital Humanities and Intelligent Futures workshop organized by the Australia India Institute, Melbourne, ‘Bodies on Biometric Duties: A Child’s Eye View of Care in the Welfare State.’, October 31, 2023.

January 20, 2021. Invited talk at the BIT-ACT monthly seminar series hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy, on ‘Biometric Designs for Increasing Inclusion and Decreasing Corruption: Lessons from India’s Food Security System’. Details here.

August 28, 2020. Invited panelist. MINRO-SAMVAAD discussion on NLP and Fake News. IIIT-Bangalore. Video here.

August 1, 2020. Invited talk at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University Visweswarya College of Engineering (UVCE, Bangalore) on “Enabling Technology to Shape a Humane Digital Society – Why does it Need Help? Video here.

March 6, 2020. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB) (Federal Agency for Civic Education), Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, Government of Germany on ‘The Future We Want to Live In’ at Future 2040 + Media Performance, Künstlerhaus Mousonturn, Frankfurt, Germany.

April 22, 2020. Invited Q&A moderated by Bronwen Deacon of the Alexander Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany on the short story “In Mangal’s New World”. Videos here: YouTube and Facebook.

January 28, 2019. Samvaad Talk at IIIT-Bangalore on “WiFi in the Wild – Learnings from Non-users of an Infrastructure.” Video here.

November 30, 2018. Invited talk at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore as part of Talks@ATREE on “Public WiFi is for Men and Mobile Internet is for Women: Interrogating Politics of Space and Gender around WiFi Hotspots.” Video here.